Well, it’s true. After World War I, widely traveled architect Addison Mizner looked around at the resort colony’s New England shingle-style cottages and Newport-appropriate Beaux Arts mansions and created a new style of stucco, red-tile-roofed mansions that would be forever known as “the Palm Beach look.”

As for Mar-a-Lago, although it was initially designed by the versatile, conventionally-trained Marion Sims Wyeth, owner Marjorie Merriweather Post wanted a bit more pizzazz.

The richest woman in the country hired Viennese theater architece Joseph Urban, who designed sets for Flo Ziegfeld, to gild her lily with a theatrical river of gold leaf, ancient Portuguese tiles, carved wood doors and fanciful wrought iron.

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